ELDERLY residents were evacuated from a care home when a blaze broke out in a bedroom.
Firefighters were called to the Greenlands Residential Home in Green Lane, Great Lever, at around 1.10pm yesterday after smoke alarms were triggered.
Staff discovered a fire had started in a first floor bedroom. A woman aged in her 70s was led to safety with 16 other residents who were evacuated while fire officers dealt with the flames.
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The fire began in bedding and spread to curtains in the woman's first floor bedroom.
It was started by a carelessly discarded cigarette lighter.
The fire was put out before it could spread beyond the bedroom, which was smoke damaged.
Watch Commander Jim Bridge, from Bolton Central Fire Station said: "The staff did an exemplary job in evacuating everybody so quickly. Fortunately we could put the fire out before it could get worse."
He added: "Were it not for the smoke alarm system which alerted staff straight away, and the excellent way the staff reacted, this could have been a very serious fire putting a lot of vulnerable people in danger."
The damage was contained to the room in which the fire started and the residents of the home were allowed back into their rooms once firefighters had left.
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